Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods, systems and apparatus for improved feedback control
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Application No.: US16774926Application Date: 2020-01-28
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Publication No.: US11323804B2Publication Date: 2022-05-03
- Inventor: Henry Chen , Tom Harvey , Brenton Steele
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Applicant Address: GB Edinburgh
- Assignee: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: GB Edinburgh
- Agency: Jackson Walker L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H04R3/02
- IPC: H04R3/02 ; H04R3/00 ; H04R1/40 ; G10L21/038

Abstract:
An apparatus of reducing feedback noise in an acoustic system, the apparatus comprising: a first input for receiving a first signal derived from a first microphone associated with a first channel, the first signal comprising a first set of frequency sub-bands; a second input for receiving a second signal derived from a second microphone associated with a second channel, the second signal comprising second set of frequency sub-bands, the first and second sets of frequency sub-bands having matching frequency ranges, each frequency sub-band of the first and second sets of frequency sub-bands having a frequency of greater than a threshold frequency; and one or more processors configured to: determining feedback at a first speaker associated with the first channel; and responsive to determining feedback, mix each of the first set of frequency sub-bands with a corresponding one of the second set of frequency sub-bands to generate a mixed output signal comprising a mixed set of frequency sub-bands; wherein the mixing is performed so as to minimize the output power in each of the mixed set of frequency sub-bands whilst maintaining a stereo effect level difference in the mixed signal between the first and second signals within a level difference threshold range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200186923A1 METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED FEEDBACK CONTROL Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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